Sunday, August 26, 2012

SUNDAY MORNING FARMER MARKET
We're back from the nearest farmer's market after a weekend infusion of vegetable beauty. Stand after stand of tomatoes, peppers, onions, sweet corn, radishes, cabbages, all delighted the eye. As we strolled along, a wealth of music filled the air. The African American harmonica player set the white poodle dancing in the street. One guitar player plinked out toe taping tunes. And a little girl who played the violin, with her mother accompanying her drew a crowd. She played "Casey would waltz with the strawberry blond and the band played on." Bob asked her to dance and she gave him a funny look. "I don't think she knows the words," he murmured to me, and we hurried on our way. Dogs,s dogs, of pure and mixed breeds behaved beautifully. Little kids stood entranced over wooden pumpkins and birdhouse. We traveled on to admire eggplants of all sizes and colors. We tasted jams and jellies. Breads and cookies. Meat samples. Popcorn. It was so filling visually that we didn't buy much. A bag of tomatoes from Decatur, NE and a bunch of kohlrabi to slice and salt for a bit of crunch. Our senses sated, we smiled and waved goodbye.

About Me

Wrote The Desert Eternal, Legend of Brook Hollow, Cowboys & Wild, Wild Things. These books are illustrated with my husband Bob's photography. New books this year are Powerball 33 and Lincoln & the Gettysburg Address, about 3 days in his life and our country.

New cozy mystery coming out May 1, 2015 THE EROTICA BOOK CLUB FOR NICE LADIES. It's about a librarian with her own bookmobile who arrives in a small California town and is asked to start a secret book club by 2 women curious about erotica. The librarian who loves classic literature starts them off reading Emily Dickinson, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The mystery concerns a stolen, ancient book of herbal cures and how the book club ladies get entangled in the serious crime wave that washes over the town.